Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ritchie's failure before Tobruk: a massed and disastrous assault by British tanks without infantry support. (Said one American observer: "He sent the backfield into the game but kept the line on the bench.") At El Alamein it was different. Montgomery's spear head of armor burst through a breach made by artillery and infantry...
...From my captors I asked but one thing-the Bible. . . . The greatness and love of Christ burst upon me with a new inspiration, increasing my strength to struggle against evil, to overcome temptation and to uphold righteousness. . . . When Christ entered Jerusalem the last time He knew the danger ahead, but triumphantly He rode into the city...
...hardier unionists ventured on the "blitz course"-the mean, trying 1,000-yard obstacle trail where Rangers are toughened: through barbed wire, up cliffs, over barricades, crawling on their stomachs while tracer bullets streaked above and bombs burst around. For a final treat the Division staged a mock battle, and the weary visitors watched guns and tanks they had helped make swing into action...
...Berlin with the first hundred. We made a two-minute bombing run and dropped our cookies. I saw 100 cookies drop dead bang. Flak was spasmodic. After our first big concentration, Jerry came out of the cellar and gave us another burst...
...just to check fundamentals. For the rest of the course, Gunner Doe fires at targets on the wing. In an aircraft, almost all his shooting will be at fleeting targets, and the emphasis in training must be on "deflection" shooting, i.e., leading a target so that machine-gun burst and target will arrive at the same place at the same time...